A failed, un-built suburb that has been going feral for decades.

An icon among Florida's pre-Disney tourist attractions, just west of Orlando.

This 140-year-old beacon off the Florida Keys marks the wreck of a Navy ship that once roamed the Caribbean hunting pirates.

This spiny beast guards an artist's village while vying for the title of largest lobster in the world.

These crumbling foundations are all that remain of the once-stately 1840s manor that gave the town of Bradenton its name.

The culprit who accidentally lit this 3,500-year-old tree on fire stated "I can't believe I burned down a tree older than Jesus."

America's only city hall with minarets took architectural cues from Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves.

St. Augustine's record-setting narrow street was designed to protect against pirates.

Located within a historic park, the beacon is the oldest standing structure in Miami.

Like Mardi Gras, only everyone's a pirate.

The giant squid's 27-foot-long corpse lies preserved within a Sarasota aquarium.

One of the last of the great 1920s movie palaces is a Floridian Greco-Spanish-Persian dreamscape.

These former theme park figures have a new lease on life outside a water plant-turned-restaurant.

The third tallest lighthouse in America once guided author Stephen Crane to safety.

The largest retailer of seashells in the world.

The island residents are known for taking their quirky sense of humor with them to the grave.

One-time winter retreats of prolific inventor Thomas Edison and his friend Henry Ford.

The ruins of a once-thriving sugarcane plantation that was burned in the Second Seminole War.

Possibly the world's oldest rug, this Egyptian relic is woven entirely from ancient cat hair and once carried a mummified human foot.

Former utopian colony based on the belief that the universe exists in a hollow sphere.

Visit these gentle, bell-bottomed, exquisite equines at the home of North America's first Gypsy Vanner horses.

A building so large that it has its own weather.

One of only two pod-shaped homes designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.

This abandoned NASA launch site is now a memorial to a trio of astronauts who were killed there.